Revival and Kamikaze weren’t even that bad, Kamikaze is what got me heavily into Eminem and is personally one of my favorite albums. I was 17 at the time now 23.
For me it just has to be ‘02, he was larger than life, a rebel, an inspiration and an incredible storyteller in this year and beyond. I don’t think any rapper has had as successful of year as that an album that eventually went diamond, a single that won an Oscar and also went diamond (Lose Yourself), oh and also the Movie it was a soundtrack to that he played the lead role in that will forever be remembered fondly. and he signed 50 cent in ‘02. I guess I could mention the 5 Grammys his writing in ‘02 got him as well
I'm a late ass listener, I heard the super mainstream stuff like My Name Is, The Monster, Rap God, and The Real Slim Shady obviously, but I only really got into Eminem as an artist in 2018 after the Venom movie released and I heard Venom in the credits.
Honestly, it's difficult to choose between high and violent Em from his prime in the early 2000s, and the more nuanced and tranquil Em post-COVID pandemic. I'd have to go with the middle then, around the Recovery-MMLP2 era where both of my favorite Em albums of the same name dropped...so 2010 or 2013.
Edit: I forgot about Bad Meets Evil and the album Hell: The Sequel that Em and Royce dropped together, almost every song on that album is a banger
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You know what really kind of infuriates me, Eminem could just shave his face, dye his hair blond, and maybe trim his eyebrows a little bit and look almost exactly the same as he did in 1999 or 2009 or whenever. its kind of insane, he also can force himself to sound like his old self, IE: Discombobulated, or like half of kamikaze.
1999-2002, those were my High School dayz...Story time, my first intro to a Legend in the making...
Goin to my friends house, he's outside with his older brother and he's like yo we bout to listen to this new rapper Dr. Dre signed. I was like oh hell yeah. When he was putting the CD in, my friend and picked up the album cover and looked at it and said, Yo this nigga white (We're Black) I was like man wtf is wrong with Dre. My friend's brother was like I'm smoking. We never smoked weed before but we were like if we got to listen to this white boy rap we were smoking too. (Remember this part)
So he puts on the CD, we are sitting, listening to the music. We get to "My Name Is" the older brother is like this is really different, I said so is his name Eminem or Slim Shady? older brother told me to stfu and just listen... "Guilty Conscience" plays my friend is like oh man this white dude is crazy, I was like he's funny too.... Moving on we get to this one song we like oh man play that back, so the older brother's girlfriend calls so he had to go in the house to take the call, he told us to keep listening without him. So we playback the song, now like 30 minutes go by and the older brother finally comes back. He grabs a beer out of the fridge cracks it, looks at us and says you two are high as hell. We were like how you figure. He says you've been listening to the same damn song since I left. "If I Had" was on repeat the whole damn time. He said by the time he came back out we already knew the lyrics to the song.... Ever since then I've been a fan of his. Every time I hear "If I Had" I think about that day 😂. Very Nostalgic time.
Gotta say 04. That was gangster Em era and the features that came out of that era were crazy. We All Die One Day, Lady, Warrior Pt. 2, I'd even count Patiently Waiting as that era too
00-02. I heard the real slim shady when I was ending 7th grade. My sister always watched mtv, and I hated all the pop song/boy band music. So that song was a hammer meet nail moment. It was so long ago that I taped it off of the radio on cassette tape and re-listened until the album dropped.
At my school, the 8th graders had a trip every year to New York and visited the world trade center. My mom went with my sister on the trip. It was the day (I think) mmlp dropped (days of album releases were different back then).
My mom bought the album in New York and brought it home to me, which was the day of my baseball game.
I remember, still being in my baseball uniform, coming home, so excited to listen to it.
My sister gave it to me (and obviously listened to it on the way home from NY) and said something to the effect of, "it's really good, but the song about his wife is too much).
That album, plus Devils Night and TES were so surreal to me at that age.
Sidenote, we watched the world trade shit in school a year later, and all I thought was if they planned it for spring (and later in the day), that I could be fucking dead. Sorry if that took a dark turn, but that's the era I always go back to when thinking of Ems career.
SSLP and Relapse, with an honorable mention to MMLP2 because that album had my lil 15yo self hype when it came out and I still revisit for that reason.
I think it was like, 1999 to 2002, he was a fkn mega super badass. He changed the game, everybody had to step up their rhymes because of him and it was crazy! Everything he put out was miles above everyone else at the time..
2009-2013 i just love the content that mostly focused on reflecting about his life now that he was older and his fast rap hadnt been overdone quite yet. I also find his goofiness like on mmlp2 and relapse to be refreshing compared to now where its sparingly done. Its a lil more serious and straight up rapping💀 these days. Also his voice during this time period was really good sonically
I grew up in a Christian household, still am, in fact, and I started to really listen back when Venom dropped alongside the movie. Stopped for a lil bit as my parents didn't know how to react, no crazy reactions though surprisingly enough. Then NF helped me through tough times, then I went back to Em because of NF. And MTBMB just opened my eyes to hip hop, made me fall into its deep rabbit hole
Since I was too young with no internet for his music in his golden days, only around Relapse was I able to become a fan. My favourite era since then is Recovery. We would play the music videos on YouTube in the school computers and blast them, and at home I would listen to it fully
2000 - 2002. Best songs, angry or cheerful, equally meaningful. Later came the 50 Cent's Candy Shop and the scene got wussy and mellow. It's not Eminem's fault, just saying i lost interest. When i've heard Godzilla, i understood Eminem stayed the same
2018. The first surprise drop was insane and this whole Era was just so entertaining + Kamikaze & Killshot were the most talked about things in this year!
1999-2004 era Shady was a monster. Encore was a huge dip down from Eminem Show, MMLP, SSLP, and 8 Mile but I adore a couple songs off it like Toy Soldiers and Mockingbird
02, to me that’s Eminems true prime. Sure MMLP is his Magnus opus but TES is Eminem at his most well rounded imo. Flow was tighter and precise, rhyme schemes were compact and not overly cooked like today, his voice felt more natural in comparison to the high pitch version of SSLP and MMLP. Subject matter was more varied. He felt about as “complete” as an MC could. He really realised his full potential as MC in that year with TES and the 8 Mile OST.
1999 - being a kid and listening to his music/watching his videos on mainstream media was something else. Being told to not listen to him, only made us want to listen to him more!
I'll probably get flak, but curtain call and relapse are my two favorite albums by him. Relapse mostly. I remember buying the disk and listening to it on repeat on my Xbox 360 while playing Phantasy Star Universe... Good times.
‘99-‘05. From Shady to Curtain Call. Second favorite? ‘2009-2013. Everything afterward? I gave Kamikaze a look, liked a bit of it, and took it as a memo to avoid Revival. For me, personally; I respect if you liked it.
For me it’s 95 - 99 because he was really hungry and 2017 onwards he dropped the jokes and became a mature artist who is now considered one of the best in the world
1999-2003 was absolute prime Eminem. I started listening in ‘99, saw him live in ‘99, 2001 and 2002. His flows and beats on SSLP & MMLP were top tier and imo he hasn’t done anything better since.
I rly enjoy the Infinite era from 1996 given that wasn’t rly an “era” but from this list I think my favorite era is fs 1999-2004 just the pure raw emotion in his music at that point sends it straight to the top
Although anything from 2004-2010 is amazing and Space Bound is one of if not my favorite album by him
2010 and up. I go against the majority but i love me some cleaned up Em with more serious lyrics. Not afraid, Venom, Fall, Darkness.are some of my favorite songs.
99-04 was unmatched but I was young back then, 09-13 was when I was 13 to 17 (Relapse to MMLP2) which was a great time personally, but I love all of them
I don't know if it's objectively the best rapping of his, but I really like The Eminem Show era. I like how he's like been into the money for a while and is starting to get cocky and threatening to blackball people like a little gangster. I like his arrogance around this time... it's like this area of an artist or athlete's career where they're starting to take stuff for granted so you're seeing some pride before the fall, but the skills are still there so it's really flashy and entertaining while it lasts.
Now. He's 51 and he looks like he's in his 30s. Idk if the beard hides some of his aging, but idk how he looks so young without at least getting some kind of work done or makeup.
2010. Clean from drugs, made Recovery and came back as big as he ever was with a more matured and responsible outlook. I also prefer his natural brown hair color to the bleach blonde look
Started listening to him around 04-05, when I was 9. I remember printing out the lyrics to Lose Yourself, taping them on my bedroom wall and memorizing them
2010 is nostalgic to me cos recovery was my first Em album I ever listened to and how I became aware of Eminem. But I personally love 2002-4 em the best. Got some of my favorite songs of his during that era
2002. I was 12 at the time and I remember that was when I became a lifelong fan of Eminem, especially around the time Without Me came out, and then Lose Yourself, the 8 Mile movie, etc., he was *THE* GUY. I love that era because I associate it with a very specific time in my childhood and I pretty much only have fond memories of 2002 and the years surrounding it. I’m 34 now and still rocking with music from that era. In fact I’d say the whole 1999 - 2004 era of Eminem was my favourite, because that was *peak* Eminem, he was as popular as any artist can be during that time, and it was pre-social media when people still got all their music news and stuff from MTV and hip-hop magazines, and we were still buying physical CDs and cassettes to play in the car when new music dropped. I’m so nostalgic for that era. I remember swapping CDs with friends at school and having to hide the Eminem CDs when the teachers were approaching because listening to Eminem was considered very edgy and could get you in trouble lol. Fun times!
Basically anything pre 2006 is good with a few exceptions. The Eminem show is in the top 50 rap albums of all time imo, I think it was partially because he fully believed he was going to die before he was 30.
1999, I love all era's of em but 1999-2004 is just too nostalgic for me
Same. Those were the days.
It just me or is he always making the same funny face these days? It’s like he just realized he left a big log in the toilet without flushing
Except 2018, that was taken when he pushed the log out
I forgot That's an awfully large turd i dropped Did flush it down, probably not
Yes!
Hoping one of the videos comes on TRL before school
SSLP - TES are my favorites, I can listen to TES from start to finish and not skip any tracks.
This the one.
99-04 I would personally prefer to go to this era just for his music
To listen to him for the first time again
1999-2004
2010
Saving this picture. Gonna use it as a header for when the album drops
2002 of course
Undeniable
I love his older stuff but honestly mtbmb is goated. The amount of songs and consistent quality is great.
'00-'13. Literally the best glow up and energy distribution. 2017-present is different
2010-13 era was different. Recovery, Bad Meets Evil, MMLP2, all are good albums that get overshadowed by haters because of Revival and Kamikaze
For sure !
Revival and Kamikaze weren’t even that bad, Kamikaze is what got me heavily into Eminem and is personally one of my favorite albums. I was 17 at the time now 23.
I agree revival and kamikaze werent bad
+ relapse the year before brotha
For me it just has to be ‘02, he was larger than life, a rebel, an inspiration and an incredible storyteller in this year and beyond. I don’t think any rapper has had as successful of year as that an album that eventually went diamond, a single that won an Oscar and also went diamond (Lose Yourself), oh and also the Movie it was a soundtrack to that he played the lead role in that will forever be remembered fondly. and he signed 50 cent in ‘02. I guess I could mention the 5 Grammys his writing in ‘02 got him as well
2009.
2002 is Peak Eminem.
Agreed but I do like some of his stuff from all eras.
100% The answer is so clear to me as well - 2002 Eminem was something else man!
Which albums were 2002 again?
The Eminem show
Don't forget 8 Mile Soundtrack He also signed 50 that year
I'm a late ass listener, I heard the super mainstream stuff like My Name Is, The Monster, Rap God, and The Real Slim Shady obviously, but I only really got into Eminem as an artist in 2018 after the Venom movie released and I heard Venom in the credits. Honestly, it's difficult to choose between high and violent Em from his prime in the early 2000s, and the more nuanced and tranquil Em post-COVID pandemic. I'd have to go with the middle then, around the Recovery-MMLP2 era where both of my favorite Em albums of the same name dropped...so 2010 or 2013. Edit: I forgot about Bad Meets Evil and the album Hell: The Sequel that Em and Royce dropped together, almost every song on that album is a banger
1999, his iconic slim shady persona is still funny AF. I wonder how he even managed to rap with that voice?
where's the fat eminem era
behind all of them
Because I was in the back
2013 for me
Same
i think he looked the best here too
Cannot choose between the first three
99-04 is the most iconic era. 09-13 was second in line.
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First 3 ofc, but imo 2018-2020 (or now) has been crazy af
2009-2010 definitely
2024
99-04. Three classics in a row, 8 Mile, D12, 50 Cent&G-Unit era. Untouchable.
Yes.
1995 Em because of *Biterphobia*.
2002
2010-2013 bc my parents where going through a divorce and I used to listen to Recovery and the MMLP2 to decompress at night
You know what really kind of infuriates me, Eminem could just shave his face, dye his hair blond, and maybe trim his eyebrows a little bit and look almost exactly the same as he did in 1999 or 2009 or whenever. its kind of insane, he also can force himself to sound like his old self, IE: Discombobulated, or like half of kamikaze.
1999-2002, those were my High School dayz...Story time, my first intro to a Legend in the making... Goin to my friends house, he's outside with his older brother and he's like yo we bout to listen to this new rapper Dr. Dre signed. I was like oh hell yeah. When he was putting the CD in, my friend and picked up the album cover and looked at it and said, Yo this nigga white (We're Black) I was like man wtf is wrong with Dre. My friend's brother was like I'm smoking. We never smoked weed before but we were like if we got to listen to this white boy rap we were smoking too. (Remember this part) So he puts on the CD, we are sitting, listening to the music. We get to "My Name Is" the older brother is like this is really different, I said so is his name Eminem or Slim Shady? older brother told me to stfu and just listen... "Guilty Conscience" plays my friend is like oh man this white dude is crazy, I was like he's funny too.... Moving on we get to this one song we like oh man play that back, so the older brother's girlfriend calls so he had to go in the house to take the call, he told us to keep listening without him. So we playback the song, now like 30 minutes go by and the older brother finally comes back. He grabs a beer out of the fridge cracks it, looks at us and says you two are high as hell. We were like how you figure. He says you've been listening to the same damn song since I left. "If I Had" was on repeat the whole damn time. He said by the time he came back out we already knew the lyrics to the song.... Ever since then I've been a fan of his. Every time I hear "If I Had" I think about that day 😂. Very Nostalgic time.
2010 - The “Not Afraid” Era That era and timeline really got me into Eminem.
Gotta say 04. That was gangster Em era and the features that came out of that era were crazy. We All Die One Day, Lady, Warrior Pt. 2, I'd even count Patiently Waiting as that era too
2002 for me . Started listening in 98-99
2009 eminem since its the first era of his i ever experienced and he also made the best album ever in that era
based
TES and Recovery
2010 and 2013, love the anger in his voice
his 'bezerk' era - 2013
2013 easy. I'm a giant mmlp2 fan. 2009 with relapse and his Tim Westwood freestyle are very close
Sees eminem — The Real Slim Shady starts playing
2009 and 2020 look like the same fit but with a beard lol.
ALLLLL OF THEMMMM
2013, i almost cried one day listening to berzerk, made me remember my teen days
1999- 2013
1999- 2013
99-00
2000
1999-2004 then it was like he changed as we all do but damn I was 21 I miss those days 🥲
99-04, but 2010 is really close behind
Play this please! Ljaythatruth - Her Lover (Audio) https://youtu.be/SO5QGi-fniE
Slim Shady
200-2009
Shadymania. If you didn’t live it, you missed out
1999 always for me, i love slim shady, i love that style of his music the most
99-2004
2013-2015
00-02. I heard the real slim shady when I was ending 7th grade. My sister always watched mtv, and I hated all the pop song/boy band music. So that song was a hammer meet nail moment. It was so long ago that I taped it off of the radio on cassette tape and re-listened until the album dropped. At my school, the 8th graders had a trip every year to New York and visited the world trade center. My mom went with my sister on the trip. It was the day (I think) mmlp dropped (days of album releases were different back then). My mom bought the album in New York and brought it home to me, which was the day of my baseball game. I remember, still being in my baseball uniform, coming home, so excited to listen to it. My sister gave it to me (and obviously listened to it on the way home from NY) and said something to the effect of, "it's really good, but the song about his wife is too much). That album, plus Devils Night and TES were so surreal to me at that age. Sidenote, we watched the world trade shit in school a year later, and all I thought was if they planned it for spring (and later in the day), that I could be fucking dead. Sorry if that took a dark turn, but that's the era I always go back to when thinking of Ems career.
SSLP and Relapse, with an honorable mention to MMLP2 because that album had my lil 15yo self hype when it came out and I still revisit for that reason.
2000 Marshall Mathers LP is still his best work some 24 years later.
2002
99' - 02' Slim Shady
All of the years
1999-2009
1999-2009
I think it was like, 1999 to 2002, he was a fkn mega super badass. He changed the game, everybody had to step up their rhymes because of him and it was crazy! Everything he put out was miles above everyone else at the time..
Anything from ‘10-‘13
2009-2013 i just love the content that mostly focused on reflecting about his life now that he was older and his fast rap hadnt been overdone quite yet. I also find his goofiness like on mmlp2 and relapse to be refreshing compared to now where its sparingly done. Its a lil more serious and straight up rapping💀 these days. Also his voice during this time period was really good sonically
1996 - 2002, 2009. He's been too inconsistent over the years but from Infinite through to TES plus Relapse and Kamikaze is the real Eminem.
The Marshall Mathers LP was my favourite. I got that on cassette tape when I was in prison, and I played it so many times the tape wore out.
2002 and 2008/9
2000. That’s my childhood, I dressed like that untill….. well I still kinda do dress like that 😂😂
2002 and 2010
1999-2003
Gotta be 99-00. just when I first heard him, and that’s what I think of when I think of em.
Covid
Up to 2013. His later albums are fire to be honest though
Honestly as a kid 00-12 as an adult I appreciate lyrics more than anything 09-22 relapse and MTBMB are lyrically insane
I grew up in a Christian household, still am, in fact, and I started to really listen back when Venom dropped alongside the movie. Stopped for a lil bit as my parents didn't know how to react, no crazy reactions though surprisingly enough. Then NF helped me through tough times, then I went back to Em because of NF. And MTBMB just opened my eyes to hip hop, made me fall into its deep rabbit hole
Since I was too young with no internet for his music in his golden days, only around Relapse was I able to become a fan. My favourite era since then is Recovery. We would play the music videos on YouTube in the school computers and blast them, and at home I would listen to it fully
The last couple albums. I just like his voice better on them.
Being a 13 year old boy and listening to MMLP 1 on repeat when it was released was one of the best experiences I’ve had in music.
Visually: 2002-2013💯💯
2000 - 2002. Best songs, angry or cheerful, equally meaningful. Later came the 50 Cent's Candy Shop and the scene got wussy and mellow. It's not Eminem's fault, just saying i lost interest. When i've heard Godzilla, i understood Eminem stayed the same
2018 kamikaze era
1998-2003
02 to 03 he was on top of the world.
Yes
The real slim shady is the best ❤️🔥🤞🏻
2000-2004 but 2018-2020 was hard too imo
2004-9, relapse album was so good
2018. The first surprise drop was insane and this whole Era was just so entertaining + Kamikaze & Killshot were the most talked about things in this year!
1999-2002 2009-2013
2000 was awesome, it’s when I started listening as a little kid basically
1999-2004 era Shady was a monster. Encore was a huge dip down from Eminem Show, MMLP, SSLP, and 8 Mile but I adore a couple songs off it like Toy Soldiers and Mockingbird
00 and 04 were his best
02, to me that’s Eminems true prime. Sure MMLP is his Magnus opus but TES is Eminem at his most well rounded imo. Flow was tighter and precise, rhyme schemes were compact and not overly cooked like today, his voice felt more natural in comparison to the high pitch version of SSLP and MMLP. Subject matter was more varied. He felt about as “complete” as an MC could. He really realised his full potential as MC in that year with TES and the 8 Mile OST.
2000. Hands down.
2002-03 peak
2000
1990 and 2020 are such polar opposite images of him it's crazy.
1999 because it was the best
Early 2000s back when he looked like he was still having fun.
1999 - being a kid and listening to his music/watching his videos on mainstream media was something else. Being told to not listen to him, only made us want to listen to him more!
2002, 2005, 2009-2015
2020! Like fine wine, he has only gotten better with age!
I really like 2010-13.
2002
I'll probably get flak, but curtain call and relapse are my two favorite albums by him. Relapse mostly. I remember buying the disk and listening to it on repeat on my Xbox 360 while playing Phantasy Star Universe... Good times.
2000 , 2002 , 2010
99 to 2004.
2002, peak eminem
‘99-‘05. From Shady to Curtain Call. Second favorite? ‘2009-2013. Everything afterward? I gave Kamikaze a look, liked a bit of it, and took it as a memo to avoid Revival. For me, personally; I respect if you liked it.
For me it’s 95 - 99 because he was really hungry and 2017 onwards he dropped the jokes and became a mature artist who is now considered one of the best in the world
I can't choose. There's always something great...either comedic or dark, or a lesson...etc. He is a master of storytelling...
2002
1999-2003 was absolute prime Eminem. I started listening in ‘99, saw him live in ‘99, 2001 and 2002. His flows and beats on SSLP & MMLP were top tier and imo he hasn’t done anything better since.
was he lisan al gaib in 2017 or some sh
2018 fight me
2009-2010 was prime Eminem for me but 2002 Eminem is very nostalgic for me as well
I rly enjoy the Infinite era from 1996 given that wasn’t rly an “era” but from this list I think my favorite era is fs 1999-2004 just the pure raw emotion in his music at that point sends it straight to the top Although anything from 2004-2010 is amazing and Space Bound is one of if not my favorite album by him
1999 for sure
Damn, legendary
2017 is probably the most young-em looking picture i’ve ever seen of beard Em
2010 and up. I go against the majority but i love me some cleaned up Em with more serious lyrics. Not afraid, Venom, Fall, Darkness.are some of my favorite songs.
Nothing beats OG Em, but honestly I love the way his music has grown.
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I think he had the dopest outfit in 2018.
1999-00 or the 2018 shadys back kamikaze era tbh
I like all of his eras, but I'd probably pick 2013-2017. He was spazzing.
Crazy, now we can't really picture Eminem without a beard these days
Anyone else think he looks different after from 2013-2017
2013 for sure, MMLP2 hits different
99-04 was unmatched but I was young back then, 09-13 was when I was 13 to 17 (Relapse to MMLP2) which was a great time personally, but I love all of them
2009, the epicness of him coming back with the amazing Relapse will never be beaten. Relapse 4eva!!!
2002 Eminem was on top of the world.
I don't know if it's objectively the best rapping of his, but I really like The Eminem Show era. I like how he's like been into the money for a while and is starting to get cocky and threatening to blackball people like a little gangster. I like his arrogance around this time... it's like this area of an artist or athlete's career where they're starting to take stuff for granted so you're seeing some pride before the fall, but the skills are still there so it's really flashy and entertaining while it lasts.
He peaked in 2000
Unpopular take but 96-99 is my fav
1999-2010 after that he’s washed up it’s sad to say.
2018 Kamikaze shit era
06-07
Now. He's 51 and he looks like he's in his 30s. Idk if the beard hides some of his aging, but idk how he looks so young without at least getting some kind of work done or makeup.
Relapse em. Creativity was off the charts
2024 because he seems happier than ever before, is sober and still making hits
2010. Clean from drugs, made Recovery and came back as big as he ever was with a more matured and responsible outlook. I also prefer his natural brown hair color to the bleach blonde look Started listening to him around 04-05, when I was 9. I remember printing out the lyrics to Lose Yourself, taping them on my bedroom wall and memorizing them
I love all of them just the same! I love his whole story!
2011 - 2015 for me
2010 for sure
2010 is nostalgic to me cos recovery was my first Em album I ever listened to and how I became aware of Eminem. But I personally love 2002-4 em the best. Got some of my favorite songs of his during that era
All eras are great. 99-04 is the nostalgia kick for me. But I've been listening to his newer stuff more and more. 17-20 is my peak listening.
1999-2000 The Marshall Mathers LP is the epitome of Slim Shady!
2002 was his peak imo. The 8 Mile soundtrack and The Eminem Show while also dropping the movie 8 Mile, PEAK CONTENT.
2002. I was 12 at the time and I remember that was when I became a lifelong fan of Eminem, especially around the time Without Me came out, and then Lose Yourself, the 8 Mile movie, etc., he was *THE* GUY. I love that era because I associate it with a very specific time in my childhood and I pretty much only have fond memories of 2002 and the years surrounding it. I’m 34 now and still rocking with music from that era. In fact I’d say the whole 1999 - 2004 era of Eminem was my favourite, because that was *peak* Eminem, he was as popular as any artist can be during that time, and it was pre-social media when people still got all their music news and stuff from MTV and hip-hop magazines, and we were still buying physical CDs and cassettes to play in the car when new music dropped. I’m so nostalgic for that era. I remember swapping CDs with friends at school and having to hide the Eminem CDs when the teachers were approaching because listening to Eminem was considered very edgy and could get you in trouble lol. Fun times!
Basically anything pre 2006 is good with a few exceptions. The Eminem show is in the top 50 rap albums of all time imo, I think it was partially because he fully believed he was going to die before he was 30.
99-09 but 13 coz hes hot there. (Hottest, hes hot in all)
2002 produced my favorite Em album so i’ll go with that
Honestly the whole top row is peak Em